Jaime O'Neill

Jaime O'Neill is a freelance writer in northern California. He's written four books published by major national publishers, and his essays and articles have appeared in papers and magazines ranging from The New York Times to The Los Angeles Times, from Newsweek to The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas.

Jaime O’Neill: That grim conversation took place at UC Davis Med Center on January 29th of this year. Things immediately began to speed up. A date for surgery was hastily arranged, a surgical team assembled.

Jaime O’Neill: Those of us anywhere along the spectrum the reactionaries saw as left of them were portrayed, and continue to be portrayed, as people who cared more about owls and snail darters than about jobs, who were remote from the concerns of working people.

Jaime O’Neill: Over the course of some 40 years, I read tens of thousands of student papers, millions of words committed to paper largely by young people who would rather have been doing almost anything else.

Jaime O’Neill: Since Trump began the arrogant acting out of our most childish fears and fantasies, he’s got literally billions of our fellow residents of this fragile planet either pissed or very nervous, or both.

Jaime O’Neill: It’s hard to escape the sense that we’ve taken a nosedive into deepest darkness, betraying all that could be considered good in us while elevating the very worst people and ideas to power.

Los Angeles

Cheryl Dorsey: Beck is leaving two years before completing his second term. I bet if you were to ask the parents of Ezell Ford—the unarmed 25-year-old black man killed by LAPD officers in 2014—they’d probably say that they wished Beck had left a lot sooner.